Harry Potter: A Horcrux

[zgirnius]

No: HPFGUIDX 151076


> Geoff:
 
> Number one. Harry apparently kills Voldemort.
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> Would that happen here and Voldemort become almost a ghost figure?
> Presumably, as per the words of the prophecy, Harry would have
> vanquished him, but what of the future?

zgirnius:
1a) Harry defeats Voldemort by grappling with him and dragging him 
through the Veil in the Department of Mysteries. He knows he is a 
Horcrux. Voldemort, Harry, and the soul piece pass from the mortal 
world forever. Slightly less grim ending: somehow the Veil senses the 
presence of two souls in Harry, and spits him back out, sans soul 
bit. I prefer the latter, obviously, I want Harry and Ginny to live a 
long happy life in the epilogue, but there is nothing paradoxical or 
in opposition to what appear to be the themes of the story in the 
grimmer version.

Geoff:
> Number two. Voldemort kills Harry. this is the worst case scenario
> because it would leave Voldemort as the victor in possession of the
> tattered remnants of his soul and with no viable opposition to him. 
> A
> new Dark age would descend upon the Wizarding world.

zgirnius:
You seem to be assuming that there is no way to deal with the Harry 
Horcrux problem, that this Horcrux cannot be destroyed. But I believe 
it can be, either before or after the death of Voldemort, and quite 
possibly without even destroying Harry in the process. Harry killing 
Voldemort, then stepping behind the Veil, would again work here. 
Alternatively, if a Dementor could be convinced to Kiss Harry and 
consume only the Voldy-bit, this would solve the problem. This would 
require some way of dealing with/controlling a Dementor other than 
chasing it away with a Patronus. Interestingly, Snape seems to have 
told his class about such a method. (Whether of not Harry is a 
Horcrux, I am convinced we will be seeing Dementors again in Book 7). 
Or, if the Horcrux is not, strictly speaking, the whole of Harry 
himself, but the *scar*...perhaps it can be removed and then 
destroyed. 

I'm not insisting Harry is a Horcrux. I think he might well be. Or, 
the 'connection' with Voldemort could simply be some unique other 
kind of 'connection', and when Dumbledore confirms Voldemort 
transferred part of himself to Harry, he did not mean a part of his 
soul. But I definitely think that if Harry IS a Horcrux, this does 
not pose any particular problems for the resolution of the plot.